Headers and Footers are the areas at the top and bottom margins of each page in a document. You can add different information such as page numbers, the date, a company logo, the document's title, the file name and the author's name at the top or bottom of each page. In this tutorial you will learn how to add Headers and Footers.

Directions

On the View menu, click Header and Footer

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It will open up the dotted rectangle Header at the top of the page for you to enter your details. It will also open the Header and Footer toolbar options as shown in the figure below.

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Use the 'Switch between header and footer' icon to move to the footer.

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Enter your name in the 'footer' of the document.

Header and Footer Alignment
Headers and Footers are Left aligned by default, but you can move your text/information to the centre by using the tab key once, and onto the right side by using the tab key twice. You can also align the text by using the formatting external image header_footer_clip_image007.gif toolbar options.

When you have entered your name and aligned it simply CLOSE the Header and Footer Toolbar.

Editing a Header or Footer

If you want to edit a header or footer, just double click on text in the Header or Footer. You can also do this by clicking the View menu, clicking the Header and Footer option, make your changes (for example: change text, font, size, add date etc) and then close the toolbar.

t will change the Header and Footer for the whole document.